Qi — boys' name

What the Data Says About Qi

The Social Security Administration has registered 28 babies named Qi between 2000 and 2018, spanning 19 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Qi currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2002, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Qi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Qi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Qi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Qi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 28 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.